Medieval Manuscripts on the Web: By Shelfmarks

Shelfmark List: VERY MUCH A WORK IN PROGRESS

This list includes the following projects, as of January 2009 (acronyms in parentheses):

The Auchinleck Manuscript (NLS)

Digital Image Collections: Cambridge University Library (CUL): complete for medieval material

Early Manuscripts at Oxford (EMO): complete

Manuscripta Mediaevalia: Digitalisierte Handschriften (MMDH): a few items only [this is a site with direct manuscript links in some cases, and links to other German projects in other cases; I’m using MMDH for my own convenience, but note that in some cases it will be necessary to follow the links to the originating libraries]

The Romaunt of the Rose (GUL)

Cambridge

Cambridge University Library Ee.3.59

The Life of King Edward the Confessor (Anglo Norman), 13th century: CUL

Cambridge University Library Ii.6.32

The Book of Deer, Gospel Book, 10th century: CUL

Edinburgh

National Library of Scotland Advocates 19.2.1

The Auchinleck Manuscript: NLS

Glasgow

Glasgow University Library, Hunter 409

The Romaunt of the Rose, 1st quarter 15th century: GUL

Heidelberg

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 144:

Legenda Aurea (German), Alsace, 15th century, MMDH

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 339:

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, 15th century, MMDH

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 848:

Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse), c. 1304-1340, MMDH

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Sal. X 16:

Hildegard von Bingen, Liber Scivias, c. 1200-1220, MMDH

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Heid Hs 100

Rhetorica ad Herennium, 14th-15th century, MMDH

Marburg

Staatsarchiv Hr 11.2

Prose Lancelot, in German, mid-14th century, MMDH

Staatsarchiv Best. 147 HR 1 Nr. 15

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Willehalm (fragment 83), c. 1300, MMDH

Munich

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 18

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, MMDH

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 61

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, 2nd quarter 13th century, MMDH

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 194,III

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, 1st half 13th century, MMDH

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cgm 5250 (80)

Giovanni Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus, in German translation, 3rd quarter 15th century, MMDH

Oxford

Balliol MS 238A-E

Domenico Bandini, (d. 1418), Fons memorabilium uniuersi, an encylopaedia in Latin; c. 1444-8; EMO

Balliol MS 350

3 MSS bound together: the part of Domesday Book relating to Herefordshire, in Latin, c. 1160-70; and copies of two well-known treatises on English law, (fols. 43-72) 'Glanvill', in Latin, early 13th century, and (fols. 73-170) 'Britton', in French, early 14th century; EMO

Balliol MS 353

miscellany of Welsh verse, and other materials in Welsh and Latin, in the hand of Sir John Prise, c. 1540-50; EMO

Bodleian MS Auct. D.2.16

Latin Gospels, 9th or early 10th centuries, EMO

Bodleian MS Auct. F.2.13

Terence’s Comedies, mid-12th century, EMO

Bodleian MS Auct. F.4.32

St Dunstan’s Classbook, 9th-11th centuries, EMO

Bodleian MS Barocci 131

Miscellany of Greek classical and Byzantine texts, 3rd quarter 13th century, EMO

Bodley 219

The Creation of the World, 17th-century copy of a lost Cornish play, EMO

Bodley 264

The Romance of Alexander (French), 1338-44; Alexander and Dindimus (Middle English), Li Livres du Graunt Caam (French), added c. 1400, EMO

Bodley 572

Codex Oxoniensis Posterior, 9th-10th centuries, with 11th-century additions, EMO

Bodley 579

The Leofric Missal, 9th-11th centuries, EMO

Bodley 791

The Cornish Ordinalia, first half 15th century, EMO

Bodley 842

Latin treatises on musical theory, late 14th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 23, part 1

Plato, Timaeus in Latin translation of Calcidius, 1st half 12th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 23, part 2

La chanson de Roland, 2nd quarter 12th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 35

Synodal statutes of late 13th century, in a copy of the 15th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 36

Latin life of St. Gilbert of Sempringham (d. 1189), adapted from his process of canonization (1201-2), in a mid 15th-century English copy, EMO

Bodleian Digby 76

Roger Bacon and others, Latin works on science and mathematics; various 13th-century booklets, EMO

Bodleian Digby 78

Giovannia Boccaccio, De mulieribus claris, late 14th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 83

Opusculum de ratione spere, miscellany of astronomical, geographical and astrological texts, mid-12th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 84

Albertus Magnus, De causis et processu uniuersitatis a prima causa, 15th century EMO

Bodleian Digby 89

John Thwing of Bridlington, Versus prophetiales, 14th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 90

Quattuor principalia musicae, 1388, EMO

Bodleian Digby 93

Astronomical texts, 15th century compilation, EMO

Bodleian Digby 94

Leonardo Bruni Aretino, De primo bello Punico libri duo, Italian translation, 3rd quarter 15th century, EMO

Bodleian Digby 96

Godwin of Sarum, Meditationes, 12th century, EMO

Bodeian Digby 117

Institutio ad logicam, 17th century?, EMO

Bodleian Digby 133

The Digby Plays, late 15th century, EMO

Bodleian Douce 195

Roman de la Rose, in a manuscript made for Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I, late 15th century, EMO

Bodleian Douce d.6

Tristan romances in Anglo-Norman, including fragment of Thomas’s Tristan, and Folie Tristan d’Oxford, mid-late 13th century, EMO

Bodleian Fr. d.16

Two fragments from Thomas’s Tristan (the Sneyd fragments), late 12th or early 13th century, EMO

Bodleian Gr. class. b.1 (P)/1-2

Fragments of a Greek philosophical text from Herculaneum, buried 79 AD, EMO

Bodleian Gr. th. f.1

Greek Menologion, 1322-c. 1340, EMO

Bodleian MS Ir.e.4

Verses and tales in Irish, transcribed 1799-1819, EMO

Bodleian MS Ir.e.6

Irish history and genealogy, 18th century, EMO

Bodleian Junius 11

The Cædmon Manuscript: parts of Genesis, Exodus and Daniel in Old English verse, c. A.D. 1000, EMO

Bodleian Laud Misc 610

Miscellany of prose and verse in Irish and Latin, mostly 1453-1454, EMO

Bodleian Laud Misc 615

Poems in Irish ascribed to St Columba, first half 16th century, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 467

Welsh medicine, 14th-15th centuries, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 475

Irish adaptation of Giraldus Cambrensis, Expugnatio hibernica, with poems in Irish, early 17th century, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 488

Annals of Tigernach, 14th-17th centuries, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 489

Annals of Ulster, early 16th century, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 499

Extract of deeds of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr (Thomas Court), Dublin, 1526, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 501

Registrum de Kilmainham: Chapter Acts in Latin of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem at their chief house of Kilmainham, near Dublin, c. 1340, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 502

Miscellany of texts in Irish and Latin, including Irish World-Chronicle (12th century); with transcriptions of the 1640s, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 503

Annals of Inisfallen, 11th-15th centuries, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 506

Irish genealogy, topography and law, 14th century, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 512

Miscellany of prose and verse in Irish and Latin, including saints’ stories, 15th and early 16th centuries, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson B 514

Manus O'Donnell’s Irish Life of St. Colum Cille, mid 16th century, EMO

Bodleian Rawlinson Q.e.20

Fragment of Life of St Basil in Old English, first half 11th century, from Cotton Library fire, EMO

Bodleian Arch. Selden B.26

Miscellany of Latin and Middle English, bound together c. 1660, including The Selden Carol Book, Wycliffite tracts, other material, EMO

Bodleian Selden Supra 57

Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose, Paris 1348, EMO

Corpus Christi College 122

The Corpus Irish Gospels, 12th century, EMO

Corpus Christi College 157

John of Worcester, Chronicle, 1128-1140, EMO

Corpus Christi College 197

Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of St Benedict, in Latin and Old English, later 10th century, EMO

Corpus Christi College 198

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 15th century, EMO

Corpus Christi College 201

William Langland, Piers Plowman, B-text, late 14th century, EMO

Corpus Christi College 209

Miscellany with works of St Augustine, Life of St Olaf, texts relating to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, late 12th century, EMO

Corpus Christi College 255A

Paul the Deacon, Homiliary, Epistola generalis of Charlemagne, Joachim of Fiore, Figurae, 9th century, 13th century, EMO

Corpus Christi College 279B

Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, in Old English translation, early 11th century, EMO

Corpus Christi College 282

The Corpus Irish Missal, 12th century, EMO

Jesus College 15

Welsh grammatical texts, 16th century, EMO

Jesus College 16

Welsh dictionary, with Latin and English, 17th century, EMO

Jesus College 20

Welsh poetry, genealogy, 14th century, EMO

Jesus College 22

Welsh kalendar and medicine, 15th century, EMO

Jesus College 28

Dares Phrygius on the fall of Troy, in Welsh, with Brut Tysilio, transcribed from Jesus College 61 in 1695, EMO

Jesus College 57

Laws of Hywel Dda, Welsh, c. 1400, EMO

Jesus College 88

Welsh poetry, 18th century, EMO

Jesus College 111

The Red Book of Hergest, Welsh, after 1382, EMO

Jesus College 119

The Book of the Anchorite, Welsh, 1346, EMO

Magdalen College Gr.2

Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, De caelesti hierarchia, Constantinople, 14th century, EMO

Magdalen College Gr.7

Pauline Epistles and commentary etc, late 10th-early 11th centuries, EMO

Magdalen College Gr.8

Basil the Great, Commentary on Isaiah, 16th century, EMO

Magdalen College Gr.9

Greek New Testament, Psalms and Canticles, Constantinople, 3rd quarter 12th century, EMO

Magdalen College Gr.12

Technical works by Heron of Alexandria, Aristides Quintilianus and Johannes Pediasimos, with diagrams, later 16th century, EMO

Magdalen College Gr. 13

Texts on music theory by Manuel Bryennius and Porphyry, with diagrams, later 16th century, EMO

Magdalen College Gr. 14

Military texts on machines etc, by Athenaeus Mechanicus, etc, 16th century, EMO

Magdalen College Gr. 15

Aristotle, De interpretatione, with commentary of Michael Psellus, late 13th and later 15th centuries, EMO

Merton College 160

Hildegard of Bingen, Sciuias, German (?), late 12th or early 13th centuries, EMO

Merton College 248

Sermons of and collected by John Sheppey, Bishop of Rochester, 13th and 14th centuries, EMO

Merton College 249

13th-century miscellany, probably English, including Philip of Thaon, Bestiary in Anglo-Norman, and various Latin works, EMO

Merton College 315

Eusebius/ Jerome, Chronicon, 9th century, EMO

St John’s 28

Martyrdoms of Saints Peter and Paul, mid 10th century, and Gregory I, De cura pastoralis, 10th-11th centuries, EMO

St John’s 154

Aelfric, Grammar, Latin and Old English, from Durham, early 11th century, EMO

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